Corporate Affiliations

Description: This database "provides corporate linkage information on more than 170,000 of the most prominent parent companies and their affiliates, subsidiaries, and divisions - down to the seventh level of corporate linkage." In this directory are 6,200 U. S. public companies with 51,000 subsidiaries, some 19,500 U. S. private companies with 24,500 subsidiaries, and about 4,800 international corporations with 68,000 subsidiaries. The database helps answer the question, "Who owns whom", and can be researched for purposes such as marketing and sales possibilities, determining company financial health, and conflict of interest situations.